THE FINANCIAL TIMES

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Journey into the Danger Zone: Iraq, BBC2 — offbeat focus

Journalist and ex-soldier Adnan Sarwar returns to discover what’s left of the country 15 years after the war


THE ECONOMIST 1843

Saddam Hussein: My part in his downfall 

Adnan Sarwar went from praying in the mosques of Burnley to patrolling the streets of Basra. Fifteen years on, he remembers the sun, sex and bomb disposal


THE TELEGRAPH

Why Putin is Paying Women to Have More Children

Inside Russia's super families, by Marcel Theroux